#rather

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future. ↗

— Lou Reed

#far #future #i #i think #into

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#april #arizona #better #crews #deployment

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#back #basket #carry #come #dogs

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#being funny #funny #i #interesting #known

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#dearth #derivative #done #had #ideas

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#feel #i #i feel #late #leave

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#dreams #like #out #rather #see

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again? ↗

— Mitt Romney

#again #cartoon #cartoon character #character #does

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#along #everything #going #law #moves

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#am #buy #cultivate #dirt #flowers